First Bank’s CEO to join Nigeria Summit 2013 panel

The Managing Director of First Bank, Mr. Bisi Onasanya, is billed to join other panelists at the Nigeria Summit 2013 organised by Economist Conferences to discuss transformation within the West African sub-region.

According to a statement signed by the bank’s Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications, Mrs. Folake Ani-Mumuney, the participation of the bank’s MD in the summit was informed by its commitment to fostering thought leadership and promoting economic integration.

President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to flag off the event on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island Lagos with a keynote address on Nigeria: The Transformation Agenda.

Onasanya will be joined at the session on The Regional Environment for Transformation by the Executive Vice President Africa, Unilever, Frank Braeken; the Vice President Procter & Gamble West Africa, Manoj Kumar; the Regional Chief Executive Officer Africa, Standard Chartered, Diana Layfield and Deputy Director-General World Trade Organisation, Valentine Sendanyoye Rugwabiza.

The panel will deliberate on several issues, including regional economic and security integration; existing regional economic blocks; regional cooperation through institutions and rules; functions of regional integrations and challenges of regional integration in West Africa.

Ani-Mumuney said the bank considered its participation at the summit as “an opportunity to align forces with global business leaders in the quest to understand the challenges of regional integrations and proffer viable solutions to overcoming them in the nearest future.

“At FirstBank, we recognise the opportunities that regional integration offer and we have consistently demonstrated our support for initiatives geared towards growing integration, entrepreneurship and national development,” she added.